America Quote by Thom Hartmann

“Routine assessments of agricultural soils rarely extend beyond the top 10 to 15 centimeters and are generally limited to determining the status of a…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“It turns out that accelerated topsoil formation is doable, with the tools required as modest as livestock, hole digging, organic amendments, and simple cultivation…

— Judith D. Schwartz

To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole…

— Paul J. H. Schoemaker

“the overburden like that they’ve turned the geology upside down. Topsoil is on the bottom and rock that was on the bottom is now…

— David Baldacci

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material…

— Georges Cuvier

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination…

— Ian Frazier

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

— Wendell Berry

“The earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We might be excused our ignorance in this case, because ocean-atmosphere systems are, after all, almost inconceivably complex. Less easy to excuse is our…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.

— Wendell Berry

“Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth.”

— Samuel Beckett